Machine fob paring



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HORATIO KEYES, OF LEOMINSTER, MASSACHUSETTS.

*MACHINE FOR PARING- APPLES.

Speccation of Letters Patent No. 15,133, dated June 17, 1856.

To all @0h-0m t may concern.'

Be it known that I, Horario KEYES, of Leominster, in the county of Worcester and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement Vin Machines for Paring Apples; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, in which- Figure 1, is a side view of an apple paring machine with my improvement applied to it. Fig. 2, is an end view of ditto.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the two figures.

My invention consists in the peculiar construction of the cutter head, as will be presently shown and described, whereby the cutter is made to conform to the inequalities of the apple, and cause the apple, however uneven or irregular in form it may be, to be pared in an even and perfect manner.

To enable those skilled in the art to fully understand and construct my invention, I will proceed to describe it.

A, represents the bed-plate of the machine and B, represents uprights attached to the bed-plate to support the working parts.

C, represents an arbor, which is iitted in the upper parts of two of the uprights B, said arbor having a fork D at one end and a pinion E. at the opposite end. The pinion E gears into a toothed wheel F, which is placed on ,one end of an arbor G, fit-ted in two of the uprights B. The inner end of the arbor G, has a disk H attached to it, said disk having` two spiral lanches (a), (ce),

l attached to its face. The spiral flanches (a),

(a), gear into a pinion I, which is attached to one of theuprights B. To the back side of the pinion I, there is attached a. part pinion J shown clearly by dotted lines in Fig. 2. The part pinion J, gears into a segment K which is attached to one end of an arbor L, the opposite end of said arbor having a bar M connected to it, which bar passes through a slotted arm N, on the segment K, and extends to a point directly over the fork D.

The arbor L has a spiral spring O, upon it, one end of the spring being attached to the arbor, and the opposite end to one of the uprights B, in which the arbor works.

P is a spiral spring one end of which is attached to the bar: M, and the opposite end to the segment K. The end of the bar M, which is over the fork D, has a socket (o) ing lip or bearing piece (c) attached to its I outer or back end, shown clearly in Fig. l.

The apple to be pared is placed on the fork D, and the toothed wheel F being rotated in any proper manner, the arbor C and apple are rotated by means of the pinion E, and the cutter head is made to pass half way around the apple, as the apple rotates, by means of the spiral Hanches (a), (a), pinion I, and part pinion J, and toothed segment K the cut-ter being thrown back to its original position when it has reached the termination of its outward movement by means of the spiral spring O, the smooth portion of the part pinion J, at this point being brought opposite the toothed segment K and thereby allowing the cutter to be thrown back. The cutter pares the apple while passing over it and is kept pressed upon the apple by the spring P. The lip or bearing piece of the cutter head regulates the position of the cutter and makes it conform to the uneven surface of the apple; this will be understood by referring to Fig. l, in which the apple is shown in red. It will be seen that the project-inglip or bearing piece (e) will be moved in or out as the prominences and cavities of the apple pass it and the cutter R will be moved in a corresponding inverse manner as the cutter head works on the pin (d) and consequently the apple will be pared in a perfect manner.

The cutter head, with the exception of the lip or bearing piece (e), is the same as those used in many machines and the machine herein described is essentially the same as several now in use.

I do not claim the machine herein described for operating the cutter for that has been previously used, but

I claim,

Attaching the cutter head Q. to the bar M, by a pivot (d) and having a lip or bearing piece (el on the cutter head. as herein described for the purpose specified.

HORATIO KEYES.

Witnesses: 

